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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 11, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAfter battling through to the final of the European Championship of August 2. the England learning disability team fell at the last hurdle. They lost 3-1 to defending champions Holland in a thrilling match held at...
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From:Therapeutic Recreation Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis study explores the meaning of competitive sports participation among youth athletes with disabilities who are members of a sled hockey team affiliated with a community-based therapeutic recreation (TR) and adaptive...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedNo go: Swimmer Ben Proctor is being featured in a Mencap campaign calling for athletes with learning disabilities to be allowed to compete in future paralympic events. The ban on athletes with a learning disability...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 46, Issue 36)A multi-million dollar payment by the University of Pittsburgh to a former football player who became a quadriplegic after shattering his spine in football practice raises legal implications for other universities....
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From:Community Living (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI have to confess ambivalent feelings about the Paralympics. After all, I it represents something most of us feel very dubious about--the segregation of people with disabilities. Would it not be possible to combine the...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 36) Peer-ReviewedThe British Paralympic Association's chief nurse has told Nursing Standard about the hectic preparations under way to ensure athletes receive the best nursing care at this summer's games. Austin Thomas (pictured), an...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 50, Issue 23)Byline: WELCH SUGGS Champaign, Ill. -- The game has grace and a certain brutality. Players spin nimbly and sprint with surprising speed, biceps bulging. They knock each other over, bludgeon their way into position,...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 84, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground and Purpose. Despite evidence that physical activity, a tool of rehabilitation, affects health and improves functional ability in people following spinal cord injury (SCI), such people are often physically...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 47, Issue 14)Learning-disabled athletes and the N.C.A.A. don't get along. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has fought off a few lawsuits from athletes who say its academic standards keep them off the field. Its...
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From:Journal of Law and Health (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION When Casey Martin's story hit the news, it was apparent that whatever resolution was reached, it would be met with controversy. In the words of U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia, As you...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 179, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedParalympians train just as hard as able-bodied athletes and get injured just as often. But the types of injuries and the rehab that these entail are different. Injuries also have a greater impact on everyday life for a...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFULHAM FOOTBALL Club hosted this year's Down's Syndrome Association (DSA) Active football tournament, in which 84 players took to the pitch. The under-12s were given skills training and ended the day with a match,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedBackground Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow is an entrapment neuropathy, while ulnar nerve dislocation might also be involved in its incidence and severity. Wheelchair marathon athletes may be at an increased risk for...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe purposes of this study were to (i) develop a field-goal shooting performance analysis template and (ii) explore the impact of each identified variable upon the likely outcome of a field-goal attempt using binary...
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From:Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education and Sport/Science, Movement and Health (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe transition of people with intellectual disability (ID) from care institutions to the community--according to Western policies--results in a shift of responsibility towards primary health care services. In order to...
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From:Ophthalmology Times (Vol. 31, Issue 16) Peer-ReviewedDallas-Essilor of America Inc. will continue to serve as the official global supplier of ophthalmic lenses and sponsor for the Special Olympics-Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes program, with an extended contract...
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From:Contemporary Pediatrics (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSpecial Olympics, Inc., is an international organization that was established in 1968 to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition for people who are mentally retarded. The organization has grown to...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 22, Issue 52) Peer-ReviewedThree British nurses have flown to Beijing, China, to provide nursing care to athletes competing in the Paralympic Games, which start on Saturday September 6. Katy Wood, Anne Seaman and Linda Harris, pictured left to...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 11, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPaddle power: Twenty five athletes with learning disabilities took part in last month's Special Olympics' National Kayaking Competition and the British Canoe Union's National Sprint Regatta at the National Watersports...
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From:The Journal of Rehabilitation (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAttitudes toward athletes with disabilities were examined using two approaches. The first considered implicit attitudes using the Implicit Association Test (IAT), while the second involved two widely used measures of...